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Remembering Ray Floyd, former IEEE Potentials corresponding editor [Obituary

Remembering Ray Floyd, former <i>IEEE Potentials</i> corresponding editor [Obituary

Blockchain and Bitcoin: What It Means for Power Electronics [Industry Pulse

A perpetually hot topic in the news these days seems to be cryptocurrencies, and more broadly, blockchain technologies. After following some of the ups and downs from the past few months (and years), I wanted to take a look at where the technology has been and where it’s headed—and how it will impact the power electronics industry. I’m not going to get too far into the details on how blockchain works here—for a deep dive into the technology, check out the November/December 2022 issue of IEEE Potentials: Blockchain Technology; Societal Impacts, Education and Research.

Introduction to blockchain theme issue [Editorial

The emerging technologies that may shape the future of our society are highlighted each year in reports from well-known organizations for technology and entrepreneurship. <italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">IEEE Potentials</i> occasionally covers topics including those emerging technologies, presenting to its readers the opportunities, threats, and trends accompanying them. Examples of emerging technologies are the Internet of Things (IoT), presented in a past theme issue, and robotics, which will be covered in a forthcoming issue.

Artificial neural network for the recognition of human emotions under a backpropagation algorithm

The era of the technological revolution increasingly encourages the development of technologies that facilitate in one way or another people's daily activities, thus generating a great advance in information processing. The purpose of this work is to implement a neural network that allows classifying the emotional states of a person based on the different human gestures. A database is used with information on students from the PUCE-E School of Computer Science and Engineering. Said information are images that express the gestures of the students and with which the comparative analysis with the input data is carried out. The environment in which this work converges proposes that the implementation of this project be carried out under the programming of a multilayer neuralnetwork. Multilayer feeding neural networks possess a number of properties that make them particularly suitable for complex pattern classification problems [8]. Back-Propagation [4], which is a backpropagation algorithm used in the Feedforward neural network, was taken into consideration to solve the classification of emotions.&#x0D; Keywords: Image processing, neural networks, gestures, back-propagation, feedforward, classification, emotions.&#x0D; References&#x0D; [1]S. Gangwar, S. Shukla, D. Arora. “Human Emotion Recognition by Using Pattern Recognition Network”, Journal of Engineering Research and Applications, Vol. 3, Issue 5, pp.535-539, 2013.&#x0D; [2]K. Rohit. “Back Propagation Neural Network based Emotion Recognition System”. International Journal of Engineering Trends and Technology (IJETT), Vol. 22, Nº 4, 2015.&#x0D; [3]S. Eishu, K. Ranju, S. Malika, “Speech Emotion Recognition using BFO and BPNN”, International Journal of Advances in Science and Technology (IJAST), ISSN2348-5426, Vol. 2 Issue 3, 2014.&#x0D; [4]A. Fiszelew, R. García-Martínez and T. de Buenos Aires. “Generación automática de redes neuronales con ajuste de parámetros basado en algoritmos genéticos”. Revista del Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires, 26, 76-101, 2002.&#x0D; [5]Y. LeCun, B. Boser, J. Denker, D. Henderson, R. Howard, W. Hubbard, and L. Jackel. “Handwritten digit recognition with a back-propagation network”. In Advances in neural information processing systems. pp. 396-404, 1990.&#x0D; [6]G. Bebis and M. Georgiopoulos. “Feed-forward neural networks”. IEEE Potentials, 13(4), 27-31, 1994.&#x0D; [7]G. Huang, Q. Zhu and C. Siew. “Extreme learning machine: a new learning scheme of feedforward neural networks”. In Neural Networks, 2004. Proceedings. 2004 IEEE International Joint Conference. Vol. 2, pp. 985-990. IEEE, 2004.&#x0D; [8]D. Montana and L. Davis. “Training Feedforward Neural Networks Using Genetic Algorithms”. In IJCAI, Vol. 89, pp. 762-767, 1989.&#x0D; [9]I. Sutskever, O. Vinyals and Q. Le. “Sequence to sequence learning with neural networks”. In Advances in neural information processing systems. pp. 3104-3112, 2014.&#x0D; [10]J. Schmidhuber. “Deep learning in neural networks: An overview”. Neural networks, 61, 85-117, 2015.&#x0D; [11]R. Santos, M. Ruppb, S. Bonzi and A. Filetia, “Comparación entre redes neuronales feedforward de múltiples capas y una red de función radial para detectar y localizar fugas en tuberías que transportan gas”. Chem. Ing.Trans , 32 (1375), e1380, 2013.

You Can Be the Next Student Editor of IEEE Potentials!

You Can Be the Next Student Editor of IEEE Potentials!

You Can Be the Next Student Editor of IEEE Potentials

You Can Be the Next Student Editor of IEEE Potentials

The Future of Engineering Education

Given all of the extreme changes experienced over the last year, this issue of IEEE Potentials gives us an opportunity to look back at our engineering programs, assess the current state, and think of what the “Future of Engineering Education” entails. This issue contains five theme articles on engineering education that highlight different initiatives from around the world and give some insight into what the future has in store. We encourage current students to use this as an opportunity to reflect on how their programs are structured, in what ways the different components fit together, and how this process will lead them to become professional engineers. For those interested in learning more about this subject, we encourage you to look at the many publications from the IEEE Education Society that dive into these and many other emerging topics.

IEEE foundation: Realize: The full potential of IEEE

IEEE foundation: Realize: The full potential of IEEE

The Advent of Data Science Platforms

As a reader of IEEE Potentials, you are very likely an undergraduate or graduate student who likes technology. There is a good chance that you are reading this article on your smartphone, that little electrical device that you can hold in a pocket. The device is quite common, considering that about 40% of the worldwide population has one (O'Dea, 2020).

Preparing for a Career That You Cannot Envision [The Way Ahead

For my column in IEEE Potentials careers and graduate education theme issue last year, I shared common questions employers ask references when considering future employees. This year, the world has changed a bit. Employers are still hiring high-tech workers, so most IEEE Student Members are in a much better situation than many of their fellow citizens. Still, numerous companies are slowing down their hiring. Many students lost the summer internships they had been counting on. Students and recent graduates are reevaluating the job landscape.

To Infinity and Beyond

There is something mesmerizing about space that has captivated humanity for generations and inspired artists, scientists, and engineers alike. However, it was not until the late 1950s that humans were able to design and build a rocket capable of breaking through the force of gravity to reach space. Early on, most space activities were carried out by the governments from a few nations; in recent years, we have seen many commercial and educational initiatives that are making space more accessible to everyone. This issue of IEEE Potentials is dedicated to topics of space exploration, highlighting projects and ideas fueling the current and future generations of explorers.

You Can Be the Next Student Editor of IEEE Potentials!

You Can Be the Next Student Editor of IEEE Potentials!

The International Journey of a Medical Technology Student [Tech Travel

In this “Tech Travel” column, IEEE Potentials Editorial Board members Catia Bandeiras and Mahshid Iraniparast discuss their international journeys as medical technology (MedTech) students and how the IEEE shaped their careers in the field. Both women are originally from Region 8 and did their graduate studies in the United States.

Have a Personal Mission and Vision [The Way Ahead

Do you have a vision? This issue of IEEE Potentials is about medical technology. I want to consider vision as a concept that encompasses more than just the physical ability to see or technology that helps with physical vision. Most organizations have mission and vision statements. A mission statement defines the organization’s business, its objectives, and its approach to reaching those objectives, whereas a vision statement describes the desired future position of the organization. The mission statement describes what you want to do now, and the vision statement outlines what you want to be in the future. The IEEE’s mission statement is “IEEE’s core purpose is to foster technological innovation and excellence for the benefit of humanity.”

You Can Be the Next Student Editor of IEEE Potentials!

You Can Be the Next Student Editor of IEEE Potentials!

IEEE Foundation Realize: The Full Potential of IEEE

IEEE Foundation Realize: The Full Potential of IEEE

Enjoying Your Visiting Grad School Experience Abroad [Tech Travel

Welcome to another Tech Travel column, in which I share a topic that is very close to my heart. I am scheduled to defend my thesis in November, and while working toward my four-year Ph.D. degree in bioengineering, I spent half of the time in my home country, Portugal, and the other half in Boston, Massachusetts. If you read the IEEE Potentials sports technology theme issue (May/June 2019), you can find my recollections about the sports events I attended in Boston.

Exploring Technology in U.S. Sports [Tech Travel

Welcome to the first Tech Travel column, which will appear as a regular contribution in future issues of IEEE Potentials. As a bioengineering Ph.D. student, my main base is Instituto Superior T?cnico in Lisbon, Portugal, but the second half of my four-year journey took me to Boston, Massachusetts. Boston is a city that loves its sports. You can see this in how residents proudly wear their favorite team gear everywhere.

Keep the Conversation Going [The Way Ahead

In this issue of IEEE Potentials, you will find many interesting articles about the Internet of Things (IoT). Numerous students at my university who are IEEE members have expressed that they highly value their exclusive subscription to this magazine; I hope that you find it equally as interesting.

Smart Consumer Electronic Systems

In 2017, I was invited by IEEE Managing Editor Craig Causer and IEEE Potentials then-Editor-in-Chief (EIC) Sachin Seth to put together a consumerelectronics (CE)-related special issue of IEEE Potentials. I started thinking about a possible theme. During that same time period, I was discussing renaming an IEEE conference, the IEEE International Symposium on Nanoelectronic and Information Systems, for which I am the Steering Committee chair. After much dis cussion, we came up with the idea to rename it the IEEE International Symposium on Smart Electronic Systems.